Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Maine laid the slogan to rest. By a vote of 63,710 to 36,065, the electorate of Maine decided to change the date of its elections. The basic reason for the old September date-the probability that hard winter weather and impassable, broken roads would keep most voters from the polls-had long since passed. Beginning in 1960, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, as the nation goes to the polls for state and congressional as well as presidential elections, so will go Maine...
...United Nations let France off last February with only a warning to seek a "peaceful, democratic and just solution" of the Algerian mess. But the U.N. put France on probation; it was clear that France would have to come forth with something more specific than last winter's vague promises. Last week, as the U.N. prepared to open its 12th General Assembly meeting and its corridors began to echo with talk of Algeria, French Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury announced his new plan for Algeria, and called Parliament into special session to consider it. Bourg...
...antidote to that tired feeling, Free-Lance writer Sylvia Wright now suggests (in the current issue of High Fidelity) a broad new approach to opera. Author Wright, founder of what may come to be known as the Vacuum School of Criticism, reports that every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with the Metropolitan, I would clean in the following order: straighten up the room, dust Venetian blinds, clean window sills, brush lampshades and upholstered furniture, dust surfaces...
...snow and blows it over its shoulder. Twenty-four insulated Jamesway Huts. 20 ft. wide and 40 ft. long, were set up in the trenches. Then the trenches were roofed with timber trusses and covered deep with snow. The 60 scientists and military men who spend the winter at Fist Clench will have a!1 reasonable comforts, and they will hardly feel it when the 100-m.p.h. gales start blowing overhead...
...full dress study that will probably be the definitive work on Gogol in English, Russian-born Biographer David Magarshack (Chekhov,'TIME, Sept. 28, 1953; Turgenev, TIME, Sept. 27, 1954) makes clear that it was Gogol's genius, in spite of himself, to open windows in the sealed winter cabin of the Russian soul...